4.4 Stopping and Resuming Execution

One important use of a debugger is to stop execution before it gets into trouble, so you can investigate and find out what is going on. However should GNU Remake accidentally continue to termination, the GNU Make debugger has arranged for it not to leave the debugger without your explicit instruction. That way, you can restart the program using the same command arguments.

Inside the GNU Make debugger, your script may stop for any of several reasons, such as a signal, a breakpoint, or reaching a new line after a debugger command such as step. You may then expand and change variables, set new breakpoints or remove old ones, and then continue execution.